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a narrow passage behind or between buildings （建筑群中间或后面的）小街，小巷，胡同 
a narrow/dark alley 狭窄的／黑暗的小巷 The car was hidden down a narrow alley in the downtown area. 汽车藏在市中心一条狭窄的小巷里。 He ran down one of the dark alleys at the back of the shops. 他跑进商店后面的一条黑暗的小巷。
Extra ExamplesThe alley leads to the restaurant kitchen. 这条小巷通向餐厅的厨房。 They had cornered him in an alley. 他们把他堵在一条小巷里。 a bar down a little alley 小巷那头的酒吧 a maze of narrow alleys 纵横交错的窄巷 An alley ran along the side of the house. 沿着房子的一侧有条小巷。 He wandered back though the cobbled alleys. 他穿过鹅卵石小巷往回走。 It is a medieval city of courtyards and twisting alleys. 这是一座带有庭院和曲折小巷的中世纪城市。 The book describes the conditions of the urban poor in the sordid alleys of Victorian cities. 这本书描述了维多利亚城市肮脏小巷中城市贫民的状况。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- darkened
- deserted
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- lead onto something
- lead to something
- cat
- along an/the alley
- down an/the alley
- up an/the alley
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the area between the pair of straight lines on a tennis or badminton court that mark the extra area that is used when four people are playing （网球或羽毛球球场两侧的）双打边线 see also back-alley
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French alee ‘walking or passage’, from aler ‘go’, from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’.
Idioms
(right) up your alley
- (North American English) (especially British English (right) up your street)(informal)
very suitable for you because it is something that you know a lot about or are very interested in （正）适合你；（正）和你对口 A teaching job would be right up her alley. 教书工作正适合她。